device_probe_and_attach() fails in kernel built w/ clang
Jason Harmening
jason.harmening at gmail.com
Thu Aug 18 06:27:44 UTC 2011
Hi everyone,
I have a driver for PCI devices that have onboard I2C buses, so my
driver needs to create an iicbus child for the PCI device. So in my
driver I use DRIVER_MODULE(iicbus, <my_pci_driver>, iicbus_driver,
iicbus_devclass, NULL, NULL). This works because iicbus_driver and
iicbus_devclass are declared extern in iicbus.h.
Then during device attachment I create the iicbus child using:
device_add_child(parent, "iicbus", -1);
...
device_probe_and_attach(iicbus_dev);
This all works fine for a kernel built w/ gcc. But if I build the
same kernel w/ clang, the device_probe_and_attach() call returns
ENXIO. I was able to debug this far enough to determine that
device_probe_child() in subr_bus.c wasn't finding any matching
drivers, so first_matching_driver() returned NULL and the matching
loops fell through.
Interestingly enough, I have another driver for a similar class of
devices that also uses iicbus, and if I load that driver after loading
the first one, the *first* driver will be re-probed, and this time it
will successfully create its iicbus devices and attach to the PCI
devices. The *second* driver, though, will still fail to create its
iicbuses.
I'm not sure if this is some weird problem w/ the iicbus driver, with
the kernel's probing routines, or with the module data structures and
init calls generated by DRIVER_MODULE(). Whatever it is seems to be
clang-related; removing optimization and march= from CFLAGS had no
effect. I'm using r224899/amd64.
Any help would be really appreciated.
Cheers,
Jason
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